Mark Your Calendars Saturday, April 25!

Maximize Your Portfolio

Review Experience

Portfolio Review Session: Perhaps the most valuable learning experience for an emerging photographer, portfolio reviews allow you to present your work to an established professional, engage in a conversation about your work, ask questions, find out what’s working and what’s not, and gain invaluable feedback that will set you on the right course.

Having a truly productive portfolio review is about more than just showing up, plan to actively participate in the process, ask questions, don’t let the reviewers do all the work. Be open to constructive criticism and be ready to listen, give no excuses.

We are delighted to see our portfolio review sessions filling up. It's no wonder with our outstanding and international award winning reviewers.

What to Bring: Be ready to take notes. Your portfolio can be presented on an iPad, laptop or a beautifully printed portfolio. Display your best work but be ready to show unedited files if the reviewer requests it.

Portfolio Reviews from 2:00 to 4:00 p.mIncluded is a one-on-one, 20-minute portfolio review session with the photography instructor of your choice (more than one session can be purchased).Purchase in Advance $49 $59 at the door

(This ticket includes Closing Reception Hosted at Leica Store Miami

and sponsored by Bacardi 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.)

THEN CALL TO SCHEDULE YOUR SESSION 305-796-4377

Our Portfolio Reviewers:

Patrick Farrell Recipient of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography—awarded for his photographs of the devastation in Haiti caused by a particularly brutal hurricane season. Farrell is an adjunct professor of photography at Florida International University, where he is helping develop a photojournalism program for the FIU School of Journalism and Mass Communications.LaRae Lobdel is an environmental portrait photographer, artist consultant, and online personality with nearly 20 years of experience photographing, producing exhibits, and speaking in the photography industry. LaRae is a former host of Creative Live and while employed at BlackRapid created the the world’s first camera strap designed just for women.Rick McCawley is a visual artist and professor at Broward College and former Miami Herald staff photographer. McCawley has worked with the brightest minds in the field including Jerry Uelsmann, Carol Guzy and Brian Smith. Rick is a Photoshop expert and has written two books on Photoshop for the photographer and Photoshop for designers, now being redesigned for iPad ibooks. His consulting firm Digital Renaissance specializes in training and creating digital arts curriculum for universities in the Southeast U.S.Marc Serotais world renown and an award winning photographer, shooting the biggest news, entertainment and sports stories from from Super Bowls, the Olympic games, the World Series, the Stanley Cup, the Daytona 500, Nothing is outside his limits. Marc has edited portfolios at Photofussion Photographic seminars at the West Palm Beach Photographic Center for many years. Marc routinely lectures at Nova University School and the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale in all Genres of photography. He has shot, edited and published over a dozen coffee table books on Hall of Fame athletes and celebrities ans has conducted photo workshops in the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as Islamorada in the Florida Keys.Maggie Steber Recipient of the Leica Medal of Excellence. Maggie is a documentary photographer known for her humanistic stories of people and cultures. She has worked in 65 countries, producing significant bodies of work on Haiti, Native Americans, and memory loss. She has been a photo editor with Associated Press and at the Miami Herald where she served as Director of Photography. Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, Smithsonian, The New Yorker and many American and European publications. Her work is exhibited internationally. Maggie has judged many competitions and grants. She teaches workshops around the world and is a popular and encouraging editor who sees things in the work of photographers and steers them toward their final goals for their work. Maggie also mentors people around the world. She has helped many photographers get their work introduced or published after these reviews.

For one full day you’ll share the fun and creativity of photography with some of the best in the business. Intended for the professional, amateur or photo enthusiast, who dreams of improving their photography skills, we’ve planned Photo Workshops Miami with you in mind.Take your craft to the next level; join us and START LIVING THE DREAM!

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